Ulysses
Joyce, James
London. John Lane / The Bodley Head. 1936
The deluxe issue of the first edition of Joyce's magnum opus to be printed in Great Britain.
From the edition limited to 1,000 copies, with this one of 100 on mould-made paper in the deluxe vellum binding designed by Eric Gill and signed and numbered by Joyce; the original slipcase features matching numbering to the book.
This authoritative edition of 'Ulysses', the first to be published in Great Britain, features Joyce's corrected text (see below), details of the seven previous editions and their fates where applicable (for example for the Egoist Press edition '499 copies were seized by the Customs Authorities, Folkestone') and detailed appendices concerning the protests, injunctions and trials relating to the publication of the book and a bibliography of works by Joyce.
Written over a seven year period during Joyce's peripatetic tour of Trieste, Zurich and Paris (where it was eventually first published), 'Ulysses' chronicles a day in the life of Leopold Bloom: June 16th 1904. The book was banned in Britain, Ireland and America until the 1930s due to its apparent obscenity, hence the need originally for French publication. Considered by many to be the greatest work of literature in the English language, 'Ulysses' is certainly a supreme monument of literary Modernism and conceivably the greatest work of literature of the 20th century; Nabokov considered it one of the 'greatest masterpieces of twentieth century prose'. However, the greatness of Ulysses has often been overshadowed by the novel's difficulty, its ambiguities and its intense literary nature, all factors that led the publisher Sylvia Beach to announce the first edition of the work with the apology: 'the publisher asks the reader's indulgence for typographical errors unavoidable in the exceptional circumstances'; the errors are corrected in the present edition.
Although the slipcase for the present copy is rubbed and worn, it remains intact and the vellum of the binding of the book is fresh with only slight toning to the spine and some small marks to the boards; overall a good copy of this important text.
[Slocum & Cahoon A23].
From the edition limited to 1,000 copies, with this one of 100 on mould-made paper in the deluxe vellum binding designed by Eric Gill and signed and numbered by Joyce; the original slipcase features matching numbering to the book.
This authoritative edition of 'Ulysses', the first to be published in Great Britain, features Joyce's corrected text (see below), details of the seven previous editions and their fates where applicable (for example for the Egoist Press edition '499 copies were seized by the Customs Authorities, Folkestone') and detailed appendices concerning the protests, injunctions and trials relating to the publication of the book and a bibliography of works by Joyce.
Written over a seven year period during Joyce's peripatetic tour of Trieste, Zurich and Paris (where it was eventually first published), 'Ulysses' chronicles a day in the life of Leopold Bloom: June 16th 1904. The book was banned in Britain, Ireland and America until the 1930s due to its apparent obscenity, hence the need originally for French publication. Considered by many to be the greatest work of literature in the English language, 'Ulysses' is certainly a supreme monument of literary Modernism and conceivably the greatest work of literature of the 20th century; Nabokov considered it one of the 'greatest masterpieces of twentieth century prose'. However, the greatness of Ulysses has often been overshadowed by the novel's difficulty, its ambiguities and its intense literary nature, all factors that led the publisher Sylvia Beach to announce the first edition of the work with the apology: 'the publisher asks the reader's indulgence for typographical errors unavoidable in the exceptional circumstances'; the errors are corrected in the present edition.
Although the slipcase for the present copy is rubbed and worn, it remains intact and the vellum of the binding of the book is fresh with only slight toning to the spine and some small marks to the boards; overall a good copy of this important text.
[Slocum & Cahoon A23].
pp. xiii, 765, (i). Large 8vo. (264 x 204 mm). Half-title, printed title in blue and black, leaf with justification and production credits verso, leaf with list of 'Previous Editions of 'Ulysses'', leaf with details of the appendices and Joyce's text concluding 'Trieste-Zürich-Paris, 1914-1921' and appendices. Original publisher's full vellum designed by Eric Gill with gilt bow vignette to front and rear boards, cream endpapers, title gilt to spine, a.e.g., original patterned paper-covered board slipcase with white paper label with printed titles and matching copy number in ink.
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